Meet the new RescueTime – the big list of new features

The past few months have been really busy and exciting over here at RescueTime! We recently launched a completely redesigned version of the RescueTime.com for our individual users with over 30 new features and improvements. We’ve received a lot of great feedback and made a few changes to address some issues that have come up, and will continue to work to improve RescueTime for all of our users.

Here is a list of the features and improvements:

A mobile-friendly, responsive design

The website is fully responsive and supports multiple screen sizes and layouts. We also no longer use Adobe Flash for our charts and graphs meaning that you can now use the RescueTime.com website on a much broader base of devices including mobile phones and tablets.

The RescueTime dashboard

The dashboard has been completely reimagined – based around the most common ways our users interact with RescueTime. This gives you the information you need with fewer steps and in a more readable format.

The default view is now the current day (was current week), making it easier to keep an eye on the current day’s activities, which are more actionable.

There are several new visualizations, including a ‘spotlights’ section showing your daily patterns and comparisons with past time periods.

Observations about the current day / week / month are available to help you make sense of the data in the graphs.

Achievements block showing the lifetime total time logged, top productive day, and more.

Time and productivity reports

You can pop out a live timer to keep an eye on the time you are logging for any report

Reports show richer information about how an activity (or type of activity) fits into your entire day. (Example: You spent 3h 19m in Photoshop, that’s 5% of your total time this week, and 36% of your time spent in design & composition)

It is now easier to categorize or edit an activity, or delete time that you’d rather not include in your reports.

Most reports have a new “daily patterns” view that shows you how what time of day you tend to spend more time on activities, categories, or productivity levels.

All reports have a “changes over time” view that gives a historic perspective on how you are spending your time.

You can share the results of a report by email or Twitter

Goals

You can get notifications when you exceed a goal line via email or pop-up.

Goals can be created directly from a report page, making it easier to spot things you’d like to change and take action immediately.

Goals were previously for categories and productivity levels only. Now you can set a goal for individual applications and websites as well.

All-time goals allow you to keep track of the total time you spend on the computer each day.

Alerts & Notifications

You can add a personalized message to alerts (example: ” 5hrs of productive time today! Congrats! You’ve earned yourself a break”)

Distracting websites can be blocked for a configurable time after an alert is triggered. Great when you need an extra nudge to get back on track.

An alert can be created for just about any metric we track (examples: “total time logged”, “all communication & shcheduling”, “very productive time” or just simply “Gmail”)

Daily Highlights

You can now keep a running list of your accomplishments. It’s a great way to remember what you got done each day.

There is a filtered view of your activities to help you remember what you worked on for days in the past.

Offline Time – track time away from the computer

Offline time now has a mobile-optimized view so you can easily enter time while you are away from the computer.

It’s now much easier to delete offline that you’ve entered by mistake.

Focus Time – Block distracting websites

You can now disable a website during a FocusTime session, after waiting through a ‘cool-down’ period.

FocusTime sessions now show an alert when they expire, allowing you to work in intervals.

FocusTime now works on all major web browsers.

API / Integrations

New “Ways to use your data” page showing you other services that you can use to do interesting things with your RescueTime stats. Currently we have integrations with Beeminder, Geckoboard, and Panic Status Board.

RescueTime for Android

You may now track web sites on Android. Before, you could only monitor time spent in individual apps. This is an opt-in feature that requires enabling accessibility features on your Android device. You can get RescueTime for Android in the Google Play Store.

And a lot of small tweaks throughout the site…

System health prompts: lets you know if you need to update the RescueTime application, or if you are building up a lot of uncategorized time.

More configurable time display options for countries where the 12-hour time format isn’t used.

Many, many usability enhancements.

Over the next few weeks we will be diving into more detail on some of the RescueTeam’s favorite new features. If you don’t already have an account and would like to experience it for yourself, sign up for a RescueTime account today.

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2 Comments on “Meet the new RescueTime – the big list of new features”

Hi
I am newly to rescuretime, this is a fantastic tool to track my daily activities.
There are 4 reports , But is there a report to show every activity in each hour without categorized it.
I just want to track every activity each hourly.
How to do it?